This unique book makes learning Italian easy, practical, and fun Suitable for teaching adults, as well as older children, Barron's "Learn Italian the Fast and Fun Way" covers the basics of reading, writing, understanding, and speaking Italian. The engaging, interactive lessons and exercises can be [...]

Italian grammar comes easy with practice, practice, practice!

Why is it that certain members of the human species routinely put their survival at risk by smoking cigarettes? Why is it that some females make walking a struggle for themselves by donning high-heeled footwear? This book attempts to answer such questions. In this volume author Marcello Danesi shows[...]

Beef up your brain
Want to test your memory? Sharpen your perception? Enhance your verbal reasoning? Marcel Danesi--author of The Total Brain Workout and Extreme Brain Workout--has a puzzle for that. This compendium of five hundred brain-boosting puzzles is broken into sections related to speci[...]

Advertising plays a key role in defining contemporary culture worldwide, creating a variety of meanings in the minds of consumers. Intrigued by this process, Marcel Danesi-an entertaining and insightful tour guide-decodes the messages woven into the advertisements, commercials, brand names, and logo[...]

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ITALIAN WORD PUZZLES If you are studying Italian, you'll find these word puzzles fun--but more important, you'll discover how they help you build and strengthen your Italian vocabulary. The author gives you different kinds of word puzzles, including crosswords, word searches, scram[...]

Provides an overview of Italian grammatical terms and parts of speech, and covers idiomatic expressions, numbers, and basic conversation and writing techniques.[...]

"Con Fantasia" "Reviewing and Expanding Functional Italian Skills, 4e," allows readers to use their prior knowledge of Italian as a basis for expansion and practice of more complex linguistic and cultural topics. Each chapter is built around a thematic focus, and the book's activities are related to[...]

This updated worktext for high school and college introductory courses emphasizes functional use of conversational and written Italian with extensive use of fill-in exercises, matching columns, word puzzles, dialogues, and more. Students will also get a review of basic grammar, vocabulary, verb form[...]

The bestselling "501 Verbs Series" is the #1 reference source for verb usage in virtually every major language. It's printed in two colors, features tinted page edges for ease of reference, and comes with extra help for students in the form of a CD-ROM.
This edition presents the most important a[...]

Pop culture surrounds us. Its products are the movies we watch, the music we listen to, and the books we read; they are on our televisions, phones, and computers. We are its fickle friend, loving to hate it and hating to love it. But what, exactly, is it? Popular Culture: Introductory Perspectives t[...]